Recreating Famous Paintings and Greetings From the United Kingdom

It's been a while since I posted. It's actually been a while since I taught a class - two months in fact.

I am actually in the UK at the moment and will be for a few months before returning to my job in Australia. It's a long story but if any teachers are reading this in the UK - let's do lunch! I'm so bored and no one will give me a job over here. So let's make it a cheap lunch because I'm also broke. On a positive note I've been bumming around in galleries in London about once a week which has been amazing!

At the Tate Modern with one of my favourite paintings.

Anyhow - I thought I'd post some lovely drawings some grade 4 and 5 students did at the end of last year as part of an art history assignment I set. They had to research a famous painter and part of the assignment asked them to recreate one of that artist's most well known paintings.

Cezanne:

 

Klimt: 

 

 

Matisse:

 

 Picasso:

 

Van Gogh:

Kahlo:

Cool Nomination!

How exciting! Use Your Coloured Pencils has been nominated for 2012's Most Fascinating Art Teacher Blog by Accelerated Degree Programs for my 2011 post 'Van Gogh's Chair Pop-Ups'.

This was definitely one of my favourite art lessons. Thanks to everyone for your positive response and comments about this project, which earned me the nomination.

You can check it out HERE.

The winner will be the blog with the most votes by June 25th. Voting begins June 18th so I will be asking you at that time to vote for me!!! (If you like).

Same Lesson...Now With Glitter!!!

 

Inspiration: Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent Van Gogh's (1853-1890) painting 'The Starry Night' (1889).





 I've done these 'Starry Nights' before (See HERE) before but I agreed to let these students add some glitter this time around. Sometimes the kids are right about glitter after all.

Van Gogh's Chair Pop-Ups

Inspiration: Post Impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh's (1853 - 1890) painting "The Chair and the Pipe' (or Van Gogh's Chair'), 1888-89.

'The Chair and the Pipe'

My grade 5/6 class are studying the life and work of Vincent Van Gogh at the moment. I have chosen to recreate some of his most famous paintings. 

For this project, students created a simple box pop-up from two pieces of card. Sorry, I haven't got a photo that demonstrates how to do this but you can see an example and more about pop-ups here. Students then drew Van Gogh's chair onto the card using his painting as a reference and were offered a variety of mediums with which to add colour. Once completed, the pieces of card were glued together and mounted onto a piece of black card.

Some are looking more Fauvist than Post-Impressionist with their choice of colour! Oh, and we left out the pipe to make it a little easier (and more politically correct).